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GOLF STICK.

No. 513,733. Patented Jan. 30, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAV A. RUEMMLER, OFYONKERS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO WALTER E. HODGMAN AND WILLIAM D. BALDWIN, OF SAME PLACE.

GOLF-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 513,733, dated January 30, 1894. Application filed February 10, 1893. Serial Nofl61,740. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, GUSTAV A. RUEMMLER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Yonkers, county of Westchesfer, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Golf-Sticks, of

which the following is a specification.

In golf-sticks as now manufactured, the handle and the head are made out of two separate pieces of wood, joined together by gluing and wrapping wire or twine around the joint, or by a sleeve surrounding the joint. Hard hitting frequently breaks the stick at this joint, and as now made the head ofv the stick prevents a striking-surface of the stroke-wood, and the edges soon'fray, and round off, whereby the striking area is diminished.

The object of my invention is to provide a strong, durable golf-stick, made out of one continuous piece of wood, thereby doing away with the joint between. the handle and the head, and thus increasing its strength; also in constructing the top and bottom surfaces of the head out of layers preferably alternately of stroke-wood and crossgrain, thus obtaining a hard hitting surface and also preventing the fraying of its edges.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a top view of the head of my inn;-

proved golf-stick; Fig. 2 a side view; Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 0c-x of Figs. 1 and 2 3 Fig. 4 a side view of the whole stick. Fig. 5 represents a side view; of the handle of a golfstick as now constructed, and Fig. 6 a front view of a complete golf-stick as now constructed, showing the joint between the handle and the head.

Similarletters referto similar partsth roughout the several views.

A is the handle of the stick, its lower part 0 being bent so as to form the head B.

b b are layers of stroke wood and c 0 layers of end wood, glued together and to the head of the stick.

O is a piece of rawhide or horn, let into the edge of the bottom of the striking-surface. The grain of the handle of course runs in the direction of its length. The grains of all the layers run in planes parallel thereto 'i. e. in the planes 'of the layers themselves. grain of the stroke-wood layers (b b) are parallel to the grain of the handle and the grain of the end wood layers (0 0) cross, and are preferably at right angles to, the grains of the handle of the other layers. what may be the direction of the grain in the outer layers as there is very little wear on the upper layer and the lower layer is protected by the piece 0.

Having thus described my invention, what 60 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters vPatent, is-

A golf stick having a composite head made up of layers laidon an extension of the handle, with thegrains lying in the planes of the 65 GUSTAV A. RUEMMLER.

In presence of- FREDERIC L. COBB, WALTER E. HODGMAN.

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